Generations are now growing up with technology at their fingertips. At a Guardian Live event in London, journalist Emily Maitlis asked a panel how tech affects the way we record experiences, build relationships, and perceive our own identities

Small talk, strangers, sausage rolls: December can be a long haul for the introvert.
Lucy Mangan gives us her survivor’s guide and celebrity guests Olivia Colman, Jarvis Cocker, James Corden, Piers Morgan and others reveal their top tips for being the life and soul

Stuart Jeffries: How does the 37-year-old, five language-speaking, Cambridge-educated, self-proclaimed non-autocutie and mother-of-two party so heartily and present a heavyweight news programme that finishes at 11.15pm?